An Archaeology Of Industry And Inter-Ethnic Dynamics

工业考古学和种族间动态

• 批准号: 2039801
• 负责人: Albert Gonzalez
• 金额: $ 22.64万
• 依托单位: California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2039801&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archaeology; Industry; Inter; Ethnic; Dynamics

Scientists will conduct archaeological and ethnohistorical research to explore the relationship between industry and rebellion in the nineteenth-century American Southwest. The project investigates the cultural factors behind the destruction of a massive industrial operation at the hands of insurgents opposed to the recent annexation of the region by the United States. Previous archaeological studies of industrial-era labor in the region tend to anatomize moments of violent class conflict, while industrial studies across the United States typically work to refine typologies of resistance for the period more generally. This project breaks new ground by addressing the question of insurgent motivation, approaching the architecture of the industrial operation as an actor in the process, shaping patterns of raw materials consumption, human resource use, and industrial waste disposal. Associated field and laboratory research will create opportunities for descendant and local community engagement, encouraging the co-production of anthropological knowledge and enriching the education of student participants. The project will serve as a model for the employment of High Impact Practices among underserved student populations by including undergraduate students from a Hispanic Serving Institution in collaborative research with various local elders and high school students. Laborers at the industrial operation site milled much of the region’s wheat and manufactured enormous volumes of whiskey during the seventeen years the site was in operation. That work produced cultural, natural, and economic ripple effects in the region that may have played some role in the site’s selection for destruction by rebels. Researchers will work to improve anthropological and historical understandings of the outfit’s efforts by surveying the site and its surrounds, analyzing industrial, architectural, and other materials recovered in associated excavation, and by carrying out relevant experiments in architectural energetics. They will address questions regarding the degree to which human and natural resources were used in construction and day-to-day operations at the site, comparing the relative volumes of labor, water, and wood consumed in relation to those of nearby farming, ranching, and industrial outfits as indicated by documentary evidence. The project brings together the methodological and analytical techniques of historical archaeology, experimental archaeology, and ethnohistory to describe aspects of the operation likeliest to produce resource strain and exacerbate local inequalities. In the process, the project will develop a new method by which archaeologists and other researchers may come to understand the relationship between industry and rebellion in the American Southwest.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

科学家们将进行考古和民族历史研究，探索十九世纪美国西南部工业和叛乱之间的关系。该项目调查了反对美国最近吞并该地区的叛乱分子破坏大规模工业活动背后的文化因素。以前对该地区工业时代劳动力的考古学研究倾向于剖析暴力阶级冲突的时刻，而美国各地的工业研究通常致力于更普遍地完善该时期的抵抗类型学。该项目通过解决叛乱动机的问题，接近工业运营的架构作为过程中的一个演员，塑造原材料消费，人力资源使用和工业废物处理的模式，开辟了新的天地。相关的实地和实验室研究将为后代和当地社区的参与创造机会，鼓励人类学知识的共同生产和丰富学生参与者的教育。该项目将作为一个模式，为就业的高影响力的做法之间的服务不足的学生群体，包括本科生从西班牙裔服务机构在合作研究与各种当地长者和高中生。在工厂运营的17年里，工厂的实验室碾磨了该地区的大部分小麦，并生产了大量的威士忌。这项工作在该地区产生了文化、自然和经济的涟漪反应，这可能在叛军选择摧毁该遗址方面发挥了一定作用。研究人员将通过调查遗址及其周围环境，分析相关挖掘中恢复的工业，建筑和其他材料，以及进行建筑能量学的相关实验，努力提高人类学和历史学对该装备的理解。他们将解决有关在现场的建设和日常运营中使用人力和自然资源的程度的问题，比较劳动力，水和木材消耗的相对数量与附近的农业，牧场和工业装备的相对数量，如文件证据所示。该项目汇集了历史考古学，实验考古学和民族史的方法和分析技术，以描述最有可能产生资源紧张和加剧当地不平等的操作方面。在此过程中，该项目将开发一种新的方法，考古学家和其他研究人员可以通过这种方法来了解美国西南部工业和叛乱之间的关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。